Early Life, Family and Training Fritz Freund entered the world on April 13, 1859, in Darmstadt, Germany. He was born into a family of means, the son of Hugo Freund, a man who directed a bank and lived until 1903. While his father navigated the world of finance, the young boy’s own path would eventually drift toward a different kind of creation. In 1871, the family moved to Munich, a city that would become the backdrop for his formative…